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Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

Andy Stanley

Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
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Fruit Peace Spirit Wealth
To understand why, submit and apply.
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Apply Submit Understand
Learning never takes place while you’re talking.
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Learning Place Talk Yourself
Complexity is the enemy of clarity
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Clarity Complexity Enemy
The Church is a family expecting guests.
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Expectation Family God Guest
Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.
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Ability Deserve God Grace Vehicle
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
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Act Behavior Expectation
When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.
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Challenge Generosity Offend People Yourself
The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.
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Criticism Insecure Leader Think
My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.
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Christian Food Kids Leadership
Leadership is not always about getting things done ‘right.’ Leadership is about getting things done through other people.
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Done Get People Thing
Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.
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God Himself Side
Where there’s no progress, there’s no growth. If there’s no growth, there’s no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.
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Change Environment Growth Life Progress
You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.
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God Ideas Influence People Yourself
What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, “tenth.” For some people, that’s extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.
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Give Mean People Percentage
People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.
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Deep Live Mess People Planning
God’s extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.
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Christian Extravantly God Religious
Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don’t run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.
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Adversity Follow Leadership Preparation Run Step
It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing’s going to change.
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Break Change Day Direction Generosity Habit Prayer Yourself
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Alone Application Holy Knowledge
When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that’s when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
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Direction Happiness People Point Smart Stupidity Wisdom Yourself
Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say.
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Help Leadership Listening Surround Talk
You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.
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Area Goodness Impossible Potential Yourself
We ask our volunteers, “Do you work here?” They say, “Not yet.”
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Christian Leadership Volunteer
There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.
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Concentration Elimination Secret
When I count other people’s blessings I lose sight of mine.
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Blessing Lose Myself People
The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
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Generosity Life Value Yourself

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